Belt and Road Initiative China’s partnership diplomacy in the Middle East March 24, 2020 0 Image credit: COP21_151208c-0651 by Mark Dixon/Flickr; licence: CC BY 2.0. Written by Degang Sun. Two decades into the twenty-first century, we can see how the…
China China’s ambassador scolds the West to flatter Xi January 29, 2020 0 Image Credit: Xi Jinping by Global Panorama/Flickr; licence: CC BY-SA 2.0. Written by Joris Teer and Ardi Bouwers. In 2019 China ushered in a new…
Art Cultural Intermediaries and their Roles in Taiwan’s Cultural Diplomacy and Cultural Relations August 26, 2019 0 Written by Chun-Ying Wei. Image credit: National Concert Hall with CKS Memorial Library by Marek Kubica/Flickr, license CC BY-SA 2.0 The definition of ‘cultural intermediaries’…
Culture and Society The Youth Ambassadors and Taiwan’s Performative Cultural Diplomacy: “Some of the dancing, yeah, I don’t really understand [it]” August 24, 2019 1 Written by Jess Marinaccio. Image credit: 2018 Youth Ambassadors rehearsing for performance in Funafuti, Tuvalu by Jess Marinaccio. When I worked for the Tuvalu Embassy in…
China The Turkish Understanding of “One China”: Turkey’s Delicate Policy Balance between Taiwan and China August 22, 2019 0 Written by Selcuk Colakoglu. Image credit: 土耳其总统担 by 禁书 网/Flickr, license CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Turkey has maintained long-term relationships with both China and Taiwan since…
APEC Taiwan’s Think Tanks and the Practice of Unofficial Diplomacy August 20, 2019 0 Written by Pascal Abb. Image credit: 2017臺灣國際科學展覽會頒獎典禮 by Office of the President, Republic of China (Taiwan)/Flickr, license: CC BY 2.0 Taiwan is a unique case…
China Challenges to Taiwan’s Diplomatic Recognition August 20, 2019 0 Written by Timothy Rich. Image credit: President Tsai ready to depart from the Solomon IslandCross by the Office of the President, Republic of China/Flickr, license…
Asia Russian Diplomacy: rather a bad peace than a good quarrel June 11, 2019 0 Written by Olga Krasnyak. Image Credit: 11th Arctic Council Ministerial Meeting in Rovaniemi by Ulkoministeriö/Flickr, licence: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Russia’s aspirations and diplomatic engagements in…
China Sino-Iranian Relations: A multidimensional partnership June 14, 2018 0 Written by John Calabrese. On May 8, U.S. President Donald Trump announced his decision to “exit the Iran deal”. Three days later, a new freight train…
China Taiwan’s maritime concerns: The Arctic and the South China Sea May 16, 2018 1 Written by Dana S. Trif. The Arbitral Tribunal constituted under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) issued in July, 2016 its…